Charlotte Bronte Vs Hardy

Changing World:
A Comparison of Victorian Authors Charlotte Bronte and Thomas Hardy

Change is an inevitable force that sweeps through every continent without so much as a hello. Change has destroyed entire countries, while initiating a famine throughout the next. Change is seen by many as a dangerous entity that only seeks to destroy all of mankind. Charlotte Bronte, a Victorian poet, was different. Bronte was advocate for change, and a secretive one too. Thomas Hardy, also a Victorian poet, was against change as were many others during the period. Throughout their various texts one will find clues of their persuasion. Thomas Hardy and Charlotte Bronte were both similar and different from one another.
The knights of the round table followed a very simple code of honor, this code is the base of many codes today. Such as the way a man should act in
In the story Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Sir Gawain finds himself the target of a twisted ploy. The Green Knight has developed a game in which a man will have one free strike at him with his axe, with the exception that in exactly a year and a day he may return the blow. King Arthur, the courageous man he is, is the first to accept the Green Knight’s challenge but Sir Gawain insists that he take the strike on the Green Knight in place of the King. Sir Gawain decapitates the Green Knight, and in one year and a day finds himself at the mercy of the Green Knight, “Strike once more;I shall neither flinch nor flee.” Even in the face of death Sir Gawain was determined to uphold the code by which he was bound. A similar theme can be found in Morte d’Arthur. When Arthur is about to battle Mordred, he knows death is imminent. But in a bout of courage, he attempts to slay his enemy while yelling, “Now tide me death, tide me life,”. The action lead’s to Arthur’s eventual death, but was a courageous attempt at